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Sell photography online?

I live in a family o photographers who would like to make extra cash.We all take professional photos does any one kno how we can sell them online.

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2. Stock Photography is one way you can sell your images without leaving your home or putting any images in the mail. There are many sites you can submit images to and there are several pricing structures. There are the "dime sites" where you get paid "dimes" for each time your image sells. The customers pay a monthly subscription fee and can download x number of images. Dreamstime, Shutterstock, Bigstock, Canstock, and LuckyOliver are just a few of that type. There there are the sites where the customer pays per image purchased and the price of those images are much higher, though you will sell fewer. Some of these sites are Alamy, Absolute Stock Photo, Acclaim Images, MyLoupe, World of Stock. I've been told the revenue stream for these two types of sites are comparable. Word of advice - put your eggs in as many baskets as possible. Think of your time uploading as an investment - don't let your ego or lack of sales make you delete them off of the site - that is like throwing away the time you spent uploading them. Also - it is my moral opinion that photos that you sell on a dime site should not be sold on a higher paying site.
3. It depends on which images you have as to where to sell them. Now days there are hundreds of general photo libraries catering for ever need. Lot sell multiple royality free images. In real terms this means you get less money per image sold, but a higher volume rate of sales. Once they download them there are no restrictions on use. that said you can sell your image many times over. As its all done digitally you dont get involved in prints and can just wait for a cheque each month, sometimes it can pay very well indeed. It also always you a lot of freedom to summit your images when you feel like it to have a day off here and there. This is great when you have some great images of someone cutting onions which can be used time after time but not so good when you have the next A list celeb secretly meeting with a lady of the night where the sale has to be quick to the highest bidder, as tommorrow it will be yesterdays news. my advice in terms of stock or photo libraries (agencies) is to do a search and see what they have on their list, how your images would fit in with theirs and what they are paying, if you specialize in say fishing pictures its worth looking for an agency which just does those sorts of image and where you'll get a higher return. likewise with news and so on. target the agencies or even use several As a general photographer who does a bit of everything I use shutterstock.com In terms of selling landscapes and fine art on the net or even product shots, portraits and weddings via your own websites then you really need to target your market with the right sorts of websites and link into where they might look. My photographic training and commercail website is very different from the website I have for potential wedding and portrait clients. Equally it has a very different set of links to it. Again my landscape and fine art work website is different again. each targeted at a set market. This dividing your work up into seperate websites seems to some wrong but search engines are fussy. it would be a little like saying to a potential commercail client who is about to pay you thousands of dollars, oh by the way my wife cleans toilets when we dont have much other work, did you need your loo cleaning. It may sound daft but search engines and potential clients can be put off by the wrong website. In terms of pricing and internet marketing stock and agencies will win hands down you dont have to get involved with any of that focus solely on taking pictures and let them fix the prices and find the customers. But in terms of selling for yourself, its worth remembering the law of fair exchange, you have to make enough money to cover the costs and time plus a bit for the nicer things in life, but you also need to think in terms of how much someone is willing to pay. sometimes there is a percieved value so if you look very professional and talk the talk you can charge a little more, but you're still in a competitive market and your product be that a fine art print or a beefburger has to represent enough value for money to lead them to buy from you. Getting enough people then to you website is where the real skills lay. dont think because 400 people are advertising similar services on one website directory its not worth bothing with, a clothes shop lives in harmony with a shoe shop on the highstreet. if people go there for your type of products then advertise there. that said dont advertise where people dont go, one or two people might be looking but thats no good when it comes to making sales. personally I use things like pay per click where you have adverts on targeted searches and only pay when someone clicks on your site. I also use links from selected web directories some of them I have to pay for and some are free. One last word before I go, the web is great but its really its only like a broucher or shop front you need people to go in to read to buy. If your taking pictures where a t-shirt with your website on, hand out cards let people know you about you. Anyways hope this gets you started.